ELSA 0.4 Released

Hello,

ELSA is an Enhanced Linux System Accounting. We propose a solution for managing groups of processes without kernel modifications. We provide a per-job accounting instead of the classical per-process accounting. Work can be split into the following parts :

1. A LSM hook
2. A kernel module
3. A user space daemon
4. Per-process accounting informations (external like
BSD-accounting)
5. A user space application

ChangeLog:

In this version we add support for several job for a given process. Until now, a process only belongs to one given job. This is too restrictive. For example, if you want to do accounting for all ssh sessions, you add the main ssh daemon in a job and like that, all connections are added and accounting can be done. The problem occurs if you also want to do accounting inside a session. As the session's pid is already in a job, you can not add it in another job. ELSA 0.4 removes this major problem.

We also submit the fork historic module for reviewing. We hope to integrate it into the -mm tree.

All informations to download and install ELSA 0.4 are available on the ELSA website

http://elsa.sourceforge.net

Every comments, feedbacks and suggestions are welcome,
Best regards,

The ELSA Team.